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If the garden is not perfectly flat, consider which way rain will drain off as you don't want rows to be running opposite of that.

I'm wondering if the picking is causing a micro tear where the stem was, or that gas is produced that increases pressure faster than it escapes through the skin.

Seems to be some type of Robber Fly, possibly a top predatory insect around here that injects venom somewhat like a spider does.

I've had one or more of these bugs around my plants and don't recall ever seeing one before this year. Didn't give it much thought until today for the umpteenth time in a row it landed in the same place and waited. Next it attacked a tiny bee trying to pollinate one of my plants. Bee got...

Those little internal pepper growths seem to be called internal proliferations. I'd see them roughly 3% of the time on red habs as a light red growth and a little less often in Chocolate Jamaicans and bells as a (remaining unripe) green growth.

Landscaping for now but I have to figure out what to put in that spot. There was an overgrown tree there that had to be taken out. It would be prettier if it didn't have remnants of Sevin dust all over it but the grasshoppers and japanese beetles had to be dealt with.

^ Clemson spineless. I was only getting one per plant every 2 days, then every day, but as the plants branched out and after I gave them fertilizer they started making clusters of over a dozen buds at a time, producing more and more with each passing day. Keep in mind that mine were larger...

I'm getting about 2 okra a day per plant. That # will probably go up as they weren't started till June, they're about 4 1/2' tall now but are crowded together and shade each other a lot.

I haven't been whipping mine deliberately, but eventually the lower leaves yellow then I knock them off. How do you know you're at a point in the season that they should be topped off? A month before the anticipated first frost date?

The Red Savina is generally considered the hottest *pure* strain of hab. There are lots of people out there looking to alter the gene pool by crossing a hab with other chinense peppers so eventually the term "habanero" may become meaningless unless you have genetically guaranteed heirloom...

It thrives despite my best efforts to kill it. ;) Our relief was short lived, the lawn greened up a little but my okra are already drooping again despite being watered with a hose yesterday.

This might explain it :D - http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-2062676210015944%3Ahzhgcg-o7k6&q=Colorado&sa=&siteurl=www.latest-ufo-sightings.net%2F2012%2F07%2Funidentified-flying-object-caught-on.html#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=Colorado

I got lucky, both tomatoes seem to have survived and I only lost about 20 grape tomatoes falling off before ripe. This guy (pepper plant) fell over in the wind 3 times despite having cinder blocks around the base of the pot to support it. Now it has ground stakes and rope tied to the top of...

After weeks of having storms pass either to the north or south, finally a couple inches of rain but along with that enough wind to turn over 3 tractor trailers nearby and snap off two of my tomato stakes at ground level. It's amazing how heavy a healthy tomato plant full of fruit is.

No matter what lighting type you use, measure the temperature at the plant and keep it between 70F to 80F for best results (higher for some other plant types). Adding a fan to circulate air can allow putting lights closer, just don't get them so close that by the next time you check the plant...

It can depend on the environmental conditions and how long the fruit has been decaying. When I get BER on bells it usually turns a creamy light tan color and is mushy, then either spreads that color or the flesh dries out to be a slightly darker, but still light tan scab.

Didn't know there were any missing, don't watch much TV. I do recall they found the body of a 15 yo girl who disappeared around 10 days ago.

We finally got an inch of rain here but the wind was pretty bad, the plants aren't the same shape they were yesterday. :/ I've been watering my small garden so it didn't matter much except that now the lawn will get a bit greener for a week.

I prune leaving all suckers less than ~18" off the ground and removing any above that point that I can find so that I have a bushier plant (using more twine to let the stems stay further from the stake they're tied to so the leaves catch more sun) and when it gets to 1' taller than the stake...

A small plant stunted by an undersized container will still produce (a fewer # of) full sized peppers if the plant receives enough fertilizer and water, but with such a small container it is almost certainly not getting enough water to water it once a day for 10 seconds in zone 9. With such a...